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Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is a magnetic insulator with record-low damping, allowing spin-wave transport over macroscopic distances. Doping YIG with gallium ions greatly reduces the demagnetizing field and introduces a perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Joris J. Carmiggelt , Olaf C. Dreijer , Carsten Dubs , Oleksii Surzhenko , Toeno van der Sar

Nonreciprocal magnon propagation has recently become a highly potential approach of developing chip-embedded microwave isolators for advanced information processing. However, it is challenging to achieve large nonreciprocity in miniaturized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yi Li , Tzu-Hsiang Lo , Jinho Lim , John E. Pearson , Ralu Divan , Wei Zhang , Ulrich Welp , Wai-Kwong Kwok , Axel Hoffmann , Valentine Novosad

We study experimentally the nonlinear propagation of short pulses of forward volume spin waves in nanometer-thick YIG films. We show that nonlinearity of the spin system can efficiently counteract dispersion broadening of the pulses,…

Low-energy magnonic logic circuits are an actively developing field of modern magnetism. The potential benefits of magnonics for data processing are vitally dependent on units based on non-reciprocal propagation of spin waves in analogy to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-01 P. I. Gerevenkov , Ia. A. Filatov , A. M. Kalashnikova , N. E. Khokhlov

Spin waves offer intriguing novel perspectives for computing and signal processing, since their damping can be lower than the Ohmic losses in conventional CMOS circuits. For controlling the spatial extent and propagation of spin waves on…

In this work, we experimentally investigate the propagation of pulsed magnetostatic surface spin-wave (magnon) signals in an yttrium iron garnet (YIG) waveguide at millikelvin temperatures. Our measurements are performed in a dilution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-08 A. F. van Loo , R. G. E. Morris , A. D. Karenowska

The anisotropic dispersion and inherent nonlinearity of magnetostatic spin waves in thin films and confined structures provide unique opportunities for implementation in next-generation magnonic devices for data and signal processing. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Stephanie R. Lake , Marc Eger , Philipp Geyer , Rouven Dreyer , Seth W. Kurfman , Georg Schmidt

A differential phase shift of a low-power spin wave (SW) induced by a high-power pumping wave co-propagating at different frequencies in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic films has been studied. We find that this effect for forward volume…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Alexey B. Ustinov , Roman V. Haponchyk , Anton P. Burovikhin , Mitsuteru Inoue , Taichi Goto

Relaxation of linear magnetization dynamics is well described by the viscous Gilbert damping processes. However, for strong excitations, nonlinear damping processes such as the decay via magnon-magnon interactions emerge and trigger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 M. Mohseni , Q. Wang , B. Heinz , M. Kewenig , M. Schneider , F. Kohl , B. Lägel , C. Dubs , A. V. Chumak , P. Pirro

Performing propagating spin-wave spectroscopy of thin films at millikelvin temperatures is the next step towards the realisation of large-scale integrated magnonic circuits for quantum applications. Here we demonstrate spin-wave propagation…

We demonstrate the efficient excitation of spin waves in the ultra-low magnetic damping material yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). To this end, we employ interdigital transducers fabricated on a piezoelectric zinc…

Spin waves in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) nano-structures attract increasing attention from the perspective of novel magnon-based data processing applications. For short wavelengths needed in small-scale devices, the group velocity is…

We experimentally investigate frequency-selective spin wave (SW) transmission in a micrometre-scale, ring-shaped magnonic resonator integrated with a linear Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) stripe. Using super-Nyquist-sampling magneto-optical Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Franz Vilsmeier , Takuya Taniguchi , Michael Lindner , Christian Riedel , Christian Back

We investigated the spin-wave propagation in a micro-structured yttrium iron garnet waveguide of $40$ nm thickness. Utilizing spatially-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy, an exponential decay of the spin-wave amplitude of…

A leading nonlinear effect in magnonics is the interaction that splits a high-frequency magnon into two low-frequency ones with conserved linear momentum. Here, we report experimental observation of nonlocal three-magnon scattering between…

Spin waves are attractive information carriers owing to their gigahertz-to-terahertz frequencies, nanometric wavelengths, and negligible Joule heating. Yet the efficient excitation of short-wavelength, high-frequency spin waves and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mathieu Moalic , Youenn Patat , Mateusz Zelent , Maciej Krawczyk

Motivated by recent experiments on thin films of the ferromagnetic insulator yttrium-iron garnet (YIG), we have developed an efficient microscopic approach to calculate the spin-wave spectra of these systems. We model the experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-01 Andreas Kreisel , Francesca Sauli , Lorenz Bartosch , Peter Kopietz

We report on long-range spin wave (SW) propagation in nanometer-thick yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film with an ultralow Gilbert damping. The knowledge of a wavenumber value $|\vec{k}|$ is essential for designing SW devices. Although…

We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between non-resonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under strong pumping near the ferromagnetic…

We experimentally demonstrate the generation of spin-wave frequency combs based on the nonlinear interaction of propagating spin waves in a microstructured waveguide. By means of time and space-resolved Brillouin light scattering…